This is just a pointless distraction from the REAL evil: Pinball.

Obligatory

Any plan to examine the sex, gore, and violence on television?

Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption! The moment your son leaves the house, does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee?

Does not approve.

I'd care, except that this is what local news does.

"Coming up, is your baby trying to kill you? We'll have the answer, and your local weather, right after the game. Please don't turn us off. PLEASE!"

Came for the William Gaines reference.

Satisfied.

HotWingConspiracy: Any plan to examine the sex, gore, and violence on television?

Well...no, because TV doesn't promote reading, at least not since Geordi LaVar Kinte left Reading Rainbow...anyway, we can't have our kids reading and becoming socialists.

on a related note the DC new 52 is pretty freaking awesome

There is DC kids line, Archie Comics are still around. There's a marvel kids line. Dark Horse has a kids line too. Actually the Comic Code Authority officially ended a year back or so and everything is rated via the video game rating system. The really crazy stuff like from Avatar Press is wrapped. Plus kids haven't read comics since the 1980s when the shift to grittier comics happened. Kids get worse stuff watching CSI at prime time than anything in the funny pages these days..

So what's the problem?

Oblig "graphic novel post"

I had a good comment about how hard (and I do mean, hard) it can be to get your comic to sell. Then I realized I sounded like a douche.... and that the joke wasn't _that_ funny.
Nonetheless, I want to draw one. Someday :P

Impasse: This is just a pointless distraction from the REAL evil: Pinball.

I thought the Trouble (with a capital T, that rhymes with P) stood for Pool.

Brodie: You farkers think just because a guy reads comics he can't start some shiat?

If a kid can follow the plot of the more adult oriented comic books then the content isn't going to phase them.

I used the Mind Bondage spell on my parents becuase they wanted to stop me from buying comics.

Chinchillazilla: mercator_psi: Impasse: This is just a pointless distraction from the REAL evil: Pinball.

I thought the Trouble (with a capital T, that rhymes with P) stood for Pool.

I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers.

Why don't you have a seat over there, Mr. Sandusky?

Egoy3k: If a kid can follow the plot of the more adult oriented comic books then the content isn't going to phase them.

I read an adult comic book once and now I pass through normal matter.

/grammar-nazi is a faze we all go through

Yay! Something I can offer an "expert" opinion on!

I own two comic book stores. I offer a subscription service that currently has just under 400 subscribers. Of those 400 subscribers 0 are under 18. Most comic book readers are my age, 35, or older. Comics simply don't appeal to kids who would rather be Wolverine in the latest video game that just read about him. The only kids I'm aware of that actually read comics, are the kids of adult readers.

Also, comics are rated, just like movies and TV. The come in All Ages, Teen, Mature. The average comic is roughtly PG 13. Mainstream characters: Superman, Spider-Man, Batman (for the most part), Fantastic Four, etc, rarely chart territory you wouldn't see on network TV at 6pm. That said, there are Adult-only comics, clearly marked, that certainly aren't appropriate for kids (any Marvel Max title, most DC Vertigo, The Boys, etc)

If this guy really wanted to help kids, he would suggest them actually read some comics. I hated reading as a kid until I started picking up comics. That led to novels, which led to literature, which led to philosophy. Had it not been for comics, I might just be another mouth-breather.

Eddie
Time Tunnel Comics and Toys, Hickory, NC.
Plan 9 Comics and Games, Boone, NC.

Crazy Talk Al: Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption! The moment your son leaves the house, does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee?

Does he have a dime novel hidden in the corn crib! Are certain words starting to creep into his conversation. Words like Swell! (Trouble!) And So's you're old man!

What an immoral, mind-warping comic book might look like:

Flakeloaf: Egoy3k: If a kid can follow the plot of the more adult oriented comic books then the content isn't going to phase them.

I read an adult comic book once and now I pass through normal matter.

/grammar-nazi is a faze we all go through

I'm Canadian thats the proper spelling up here

/not really

I saw the promo for this on the morning news and didnt know weather to laugh or facepalm. I swear Im not even into graphic novels or comics and Im pretty sure I can tell the difference if I had kids which ones I would buy them.

expose on sex, gore, and violence in comic books...

Crossed have all three, sometimes in the same frame.

.....that's.....

Comic books are what? $6-7 now, how much allowance do kids get these days? I used to get $10 a week in the late 80s early 90s, and comics were between 75 cents to 1.25, so it was only a small portion of my pay, kid's today would have to make $60 a week for it to be the same ratio.

/stopped collecting when they went to $1.50

It looks like this is from Saturday. Did anyone actually see the report?

The dudes don't have a bulge so I'm guessing they are worried about lezzies.

There's not nearly enough pictures of hot women cosplaying in spandex to prove the topic's point in this thread.

/I'll be waiting right over here...

If I had children I would prefer them to read comic books and deal with the sort of moral quandries that are presented therein rather than read the sort of nonsense that people like stephanie meyer put out.

FirstNationalBastard: hbk72777: Comic books are what? $6-7 now, how much allowance do kids get these days? I used to get $10 a week in the late 80s early 90s, and comics were between 75 cents to 1.25, so it was only a small portion of my pay, kid's today would have to make $60 a week for it to be the same ratio.

/stopped collecting when they went to $1.50

3-4 bucks for 20-30 pages of story pages, which is usually only 1/6th of a story.

The full story can be had in a trade paperback, which usually runs 15-25 bucks.


As for allowance rates...depends on your family.

Overheard in the comic book store (recently):

Kid1: Cool! They have a light saber! (prop replica)
Kid2: Nine hundred dollars? That's like, three months of your allowance.
Me: ಠ_ಠ

crossed would give wertham a farking heart attack.

and i tell you this - any comic shop clerk that sold a copy of crossed to a kid needs to be drug out into the street and beaten. that shiat is reprehensible.

/have every issue
//except for part 6 of crossed: family values. need that one.

douche nozzle: Plan 9 Comics and Games, Boone, NC.

I've bought stuff from there. Hi!